Black girl = La Noire de...
by
Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007, film director, screenwriter.
Title
:
Black girl = La Noire de...
Added Title
:
Borrom sarret.
Sembène.
Author
:
Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007, film director, screenwriter.
Zwobada, André, film producer.
Lacoste, Christian, director of photography.
Gaudier, André, editor of moving image work.
Diop, Mbissine Thérèse, actor.
Jelinck, Anne-Marie, actor.
Sene, Momar Nar, actor.
Fontaine, Robert, 1924-1973, actor.
Films Domirev (Firm), presenter, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Series
:
Criterion collection ;
Series Number
:
852.
Summary
:
"Ousmane Sembène ... made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot--about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally--into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world"--Container.
General Note
:
Based on the short story by Ousmane Sembène.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966.
Special features on disc one: new 4k digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna; new interview with actor M'Bissine Thérèse Diop; On Black girl: a new interview with filmmaker and cutural theorist Manthia Diawara; alternate color sequence; excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT de 20h, featuring Sembène discussing his win of the Prix Jean Vigo for Black Girl; trailer; New English subtitle translation ; on disc two: 4K restoration of the short film Borrom sarret, director Ousmane Sembène's acclaimed 1963 debut; Sembène: the making of African cinema, a 1994 documentary about the filmmaker by Manthia Diawara and Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo; On Ousmane Sembène: a new interview with scholar Samba Godjigo ; in folded insert: essay by critic Ashley Clark.
Edition
:
DVD edition.
Two-DVD special edition.
Contents
:
A lovely country -- Shattered expectations -- Lunch guests -- Looking for work -- Hired -- A present -- The children -- Like an animal -- Confined -- Disobedience -- The letter -- Dreams and realities -- Taking control -- Ending the lies -- Eyes on the boss -- Color bars.
Physical Description
:
2 videodiscs (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 insert.
Genre
:
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Films in French.
Films in Wolof.
Personal Subject
:
Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007-Film adaptations.
Subject Term
:
Immigrants -- Drama.
Household employees -- Drama.
Senegalese -- France -- Drama.
Women, Black -- Social conditions -- Drama.
Suicide -- Drama.
Self-esteem -- Drama.
Geographic Term
:
France -- Drama.
Author(s)
:
Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007,
Zwobada, André,
Lacoste, Christian,
Gaudier, André,
Diop, Mbissine Thérèse,
Jelinck, Anne-Marie,
Sene, Momar Nar,
Fontaine, Robert, 1924-1973,
Added Corporate Author
:
Films Domirev (Firm),
Criterion Collection (Firm),
Publisher
:
The Criterion Collection,
Electronic Access
:
Publication Date
:
2017
1966
ISBN
:
9781681432489
Publication Information
:
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
©2017.
Award Note
:
Best African Feature, Festival of Black Arts 1966 ; Grand Prize, Carthage Film Festival 1966
Call Number
:
DVD BLACKGI
| Item Barcode | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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| 33607003234849 | Foreign Language DVDs | BLACKGI | Checked In |